Dan Herbert
@danherb10.bsky.social
Me?
Prehistory. Normans. Recently Vikings. New Model Army. Asterix. Old Gods. Arsenal. Corinthian Casuals.
University Library Buildings Development Manager.
Neurodivergent. Cursed by MECFS.
#MDANT
Prehistory. Normans. Recently Vikings. New Model Army. Asterix. Old Gods. Arsenal. Corinthian Casuals.
University Library Buildings Development Manager.
Neurodivergent. Cursed by MECFS.
#MDANT
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Memories of plunging my hand deep into the very cold peat to uncover Iron Age wooden planks last seen over 2,000 years ago.
In 1986, I started work on my first archaeology dig at Corlea 1, dated to 148/147 BC. I didn’t know then it would be some of the most spectacular archaeology of my career.
In 1986, I started work on my first archaeology dig at Corlea 1, dated to 148/147 BC. I didn’t know then it would be some of the most spectacular archaeology of my career.
November 11, 2025 at 9:23 AM
Memories of plunging my hand deep into the very cold peat to uncover Iron Age wooden planks last seen over 2,000 years ago.
In 1986, I started work on my first archaeology dig at Corlea 1, dated to 148/147 BC. I didn’t know then it would be some of the most spectacular archaeology of my career.
In 1986, I started work on my first archaeology dig at Corlea 1, dated to 148/147 BC. I didn’t know then it would be some of the most spectacular archaeology of my career.
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The view from the ditch at Stanwick.
#AlwaysLookUp
#AlwaysLookUp
November 11, 2025 at 7:09 AM
The view from the ditch at Stanwick.
#AlwaysLookUp
#AlwaysLookUp
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This mosaic has seen things...
#MosaicMonday
#MosaicMonday
November 10, 2025 at 7:38 AM
This mosaic has seen things...
#MosaicMonday
#MosaicMonday
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There's been a request for elephants in mosaic, and we always like to oblige! To start with, here is the splendid beast from the Horkstow Orpheus mosaic. 1/2
#MosaicMonday
#AncientBlueSky 🏺
@classicalalan.bsky.social
#MosaicMonday
#AncientBlueSky 🏺
@classicalalan.bsky.social
November 10, 2025 at 11:07 AM
There's been a request for elephants in mosaic, and we always like to oblige! To start with, here is the splendid beast from the Horkstow Orpheus mosaic. 1/2
#MosaicMonday
#AncientBlueSky 🏺
@classicalalan.bsky.social
#MosaicMonday
#AncientBlueSky 🏺
@classicalalan.bsky.social
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Hello folks. I've been making plaster of paris artefacts/decorations for friends.
I'm opening it up here now - all items incl. postage (UK only, sadly) & gift packaging. I can send things within a week, usually faster.
Anyway, if there's anything you fancy, message/email me! 😊
#Archaeology 🏺
I'm opening it up here now - all items incl. postage (UK only, sadly) & gift packaging. I can send things within a week, usually faster.
Anyway, if there's anything you fancy, message/email me! 😊
#Archaeology 🏺
November 10, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Hello folks. I've been making plaster of paris artefacts/decorations for friends.
I'm opening it up here now - all items incl. postage (UK only, sadly) & gift packaging. I can send things within a week, usually faster.
Anyway, if there's anything you fancy, message/email me! 😊
#Archaeology 🏺
I'm opening it up here now - all items incl. postage (UK only, sadly) & gift packaging. I can send things within a week, usually faster.
Anyway, if there's anything you fancy, message/email me! 😊
#Archaeology 🏺
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Every museum object is important but these are the cultural soul of Amgueddfa Cymru / National Museum of Wales. A representation of the beating heart of a nation.
Search continues for Bronze Age artefacts stolen from St Fagans - BBC News share.google/9qJAUhEXkXo6...
Search continues for Bronze Age artefacts stolen from St Fagans - BBC News share.google/9qJAUhEXkXo6...
Search continues for Bronze Age artefacts stolen from St Fagans - BBC News
Two men have been charged with burglary, but "invaluable" items are still missing from St Fagans collection.
share.google
November 10, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Every museum object is important but these are the cultural soul of Amgueddfa Cymru / National Museum of Wales. A representation of the beating heart of a nation.
Search continues for Bronze Age artefacts stolen from St Fagans - BBC News share.google/9qJAUhEXkXo6...
Search continues for Bronze Age artefacts stolen from St Fagans - BBC News share.google/9qJAUhEXkXo6...
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So APPARENTLY (underlined if I could), this strange hole in a tree on the earthworks of Stanwick is a portal to the Iron Age (obviously I’m far too big to have gone through to verify, but he came back through very impressed).
“She should have freed Caratacus!” he kept saying.
#PlaymobilInfestation
“She should have freed Caratacus!” he kept saying.
#PlaymobilInfestation
November 10, 2025 at 8:31 PM
So APPARENTLY (underlined if I could), this strange hole in a tree on the earthworks of Stanwick is a portal to the Iron Age (obviously I’m far too big to have gone through to verify, but he came back through very impressed).
“She should have freed Caratacus!” he kept saying.
#PlaymobilInfestation
“She should have freed Caratacus!” he kept saying.
#PlaymobilInfestation
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In case you’re having a crap day, here’s my dog:
November 10, 2025 at 7:31 PM
In case you’re having a crap day, here’s my dog:
This.
It's almost like this press generated storm has a political agenda
It's almost like this press generated storm has a political agenda
BBC impartiality: A full list of all the British MEPs who appeared on BBC Question Time.
November 11, 2025 at 7:10 AM
This.
It's almost like this press generated storm has a political agenda
It's almost like this press generated storm has a political agenda
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#TombTuesday A fitting place for the dead 💀: an early Bronze Age cairn- possibly the furthest west on the British mainland - sited close to the sea on Mayon Cliff above Sennen, West Penwith, Cornwall
Built of massive boulders, the central cist has long been disturbed & exposed
📷 My own, last week
Built of massive boulders, the central cist has long been disturbed & exposed
📷 My own, last week
November 11, 2025 at 6:36 AM
#TombTuesday A fitting place for the dead 💀: an early Bronze Age cairn- possibly the furthest west on the British mainland - sited close to the sea on Mayon Cliff above Sennen, West Penwith, Cornwall
Built of massive boulders, the central cist has long been disturbed & exposed
📷 My own, last week
Built of massive boulders, the central cist has long been disturbed & exposed
📷 My own, last week
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November 10, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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Hope everyone had a good one
Happy There Is A Circulatory System Walking Through The Kitchen Day to all who celebrate.
November 11, 2025 at 7:05 AM
Hope everyone had a good one
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Some pictures from when Sandi Toksvig and @rakshadigs.bsky.social came to visit our dig in July #Durotriges25
If you missed episode 1 of *Sandi Toksvig's Hidden Wonders*, you can still catch up at Channel 4 On Demand
www.channel4.com
The rest of the series continues on More4 Tues 9pm
Enjoy 😊
If you missed episode 1 of *Sandi Toksvig's Hidden Wonders*, you can still catch up at Channel 4 On Demand
www.channel4.com
The rest of the series continues on More4 Tues 9pm
Enjoy 😊
November 9, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Some pictures from when Sandi Toksvig and @rakshadigs.bsky.social came to visit our dig in July #Durotriges25
If you missed episode 1 of *Sandi Toksvig's Hidden Wonders*, you can still catch up at Channel 4 On Demand
www.channel4.com
The rest of the series continues on More4 Tues 9pm
Enjoy 😊
If you missed episode 1 of *Sandi Toksvig's Hidden Wonders*, you can still catch up at Channel 4 On Demand
www.channel4.com
The rest of the series continues on More4 Tues 9pm
Enjoy 😊
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Kipling's Epitaphs of War:
Common form
If any question why we died,
Tell them, because our fathers lied.
Common form
If any question why we died,
Tell them, because our fathers lied.
November 9, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Kipling's Epitaphs of War:
Common form
If any question why we died,
Tell them, because our fathers lied.
Common form
If any question why we died,
Tell them, because our fathers lied.
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Here was the world’s worst wound. And here with pride
‘Their name liveth for evermore’ the Gateway claims.
Was ever an immolation so belied
As these intolerably nameless names?
Well might the Dead who struggled in the slime
Rise and deride this sepulchre of crime.
reeddesign.co.uk/wordpress/20...
‘Their name liveth for evermore’ the Gateway claims.
Was ever an immolation so belied
As these intolerably nameless names?
Well might the Dead who struggled in the slime
Rise and deride this sepulchre of crime.
reeddesign.co.uk/wordpress/20...
Armistice Day
Two poems that sum up the tragedy of it all.
Dulce et decorum est
Wilfred Owen
Bent double, like old beggars under sacks,
Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge,
Till on the haun...
reeddesign.co.uk
November 9, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Here was the world’s worst wound. And here with pride
‘Their name liveth for evermore’ the Gateway claims.
Was ever an immolation so belied
As these intolerably nameless names?
Well might the Dead who struggled in the slime
Rise and deride this sepulchre of crime.
reeddesign.co.uk/wordpress/20...
‘Their name liveth for evermore’ the Gateway claims.
Was ever an immolation so belied
As these intolerably nameless names?
Well might the Dead who struggled in the slime
Rise and deride this sepulchre of crime.
reeddesign.co.uk/wordpress/20...
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And another one by Sassoon:
'I saw the Prince of Darkness, with his Staff,
Standing bare-headed by the Cenotaph:
Unostentatious and respectful, there
He stood, and offered up the following prayer.
‘Make them forget, O Lord, what this Memorial
Means'
www.poeticous.com/siegfried-sa...
'I saw the Prince of Darkness, with his Staff,
Standing bare-headed by the Cenotaph:
Unostentatious and respectful, there
He stood, and offered up the following prayer.
‘Make them forget, O Lord, what this Memorial
Means'
www.poeticous.com/siegfried-sa...
At the Cenotaph, by Siegfried Sassoon
I saw the Prince of Darkness, wit…
Standing bare-headed by the Cenot…
Unostentatious and respectful, the…
He stood, and offered up the follo…
‘Make them forget, O Lord, what t…
www.poeticous.com
November 9, 2025 at 1:48 PM
And another one by Sassoon:
'I saw the Prince of Darkness, with his Staff,
Standing bare-headed by the Cenotaph:
Unostentatious and respectful, there
He stood, and offered up the following prayer.
‘Make them forget, O Lord, what this Memorial
Means'
www.poeticous.com/siegfried-sa...
'I saw the Prince of Darkness, with his Staff,
Standing bare-headed by the Cenotaph:
Unostentatious and respectful, there
He stood, and offered up the following prayer.
‘Make them forget, O Lord, what this Memorial
Means'
www.poeticous.com/siegfried-sa...
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When You See Millions of the Mouthless Dead - Charles Sorley
November 9, 2025 at 2:23 PM
When You See Millions of the Mouthless Dead - Charles Sorley
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The epigraph on the grave of Edward Thomas at Arras
November 9, 2025 at 1:18 PM
The epigraph on the grave of Edward Thomas at Arras
Absolutely this
The realities of the Edwardian colonial miasma that results in industrial war that broke a generation and that we should remember for its horror, grief and reality. Remembrance is more than just flag waving and as a society we should all do this, wearing poppies or not
November 9, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Absolutely this
November 9, 2025 at 11:47 AM
Reposted every year in response to all those who fetishize remembrance
November 9, 2025 at 11:43 AM
Reposted every year in response to all those who fetishize remembrance
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The trenches have vanished long under the plough
There's no gas, no barbed wire, no guns firing now
But here in this graveyard it's still no man's land
And countless white crosses in mute witness stand
To man's blind indifference to his fellow man
And a whole generation who were butchered + damned
There's no gas, no barbed wire, no guns firing now
But here in this graveyard it's still no man's land
And countless white crosses in mute witness stand
To man's blind indifference to his fellow man
And a whole generation who were butchered + damned
June Tabor - No Mans Land
YouTube video by paddy brennan
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November 9, 2025 at 10:54 AM
The trenches have vanished long under the plough
There's no gas, no barbed wire, no guns firing now
But here in this graveyard it's still no man's land
And countless white crosses in mute witness stand
To man's blind indifference to his fellow man
And a whole generation who were butchered + damned
There's no gas, no barbed wire, no guns firing now
But here in this graveyard it's still no man's land
And countless white crosses in mute witness stand
To man's blind indifference to his fellow man
And a whole generation who were butchered + damned
Current Status: Taking a brief break from Prehistory to remind myself how bloody annoying I find Henry III
November 9, 2025 at 11:39 AM
Current Status: Taking a brief break from Prehistory to remind myself how bloody annoying I find Henry III
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Callanish sunset yesterday #StandingStoneSunday
November 9, 2025 at 6:58 AM
Callanish sunset yesterday #StandingStoneSunday